The Winding Way The Teskey Brothers

• 1I'm Leaving04:21
• 2Oceans Of Emotions03:53
• 3Take My Heart04:18
• 4London Bridge05:27
• 5Carry Me Home04:00
• 6This Will Be Our Year02:37
• 7Blind Without You04:43
• 8Rich Man05:06
• 9Remember The Time04:12
• 10What Will Be07:42
• Total Runtime46:19

Info for The Winding Way

The Winding Way is the highly anticipated third studio album from celebrated Melbourne band, The Teskey Brothers.

Four years after the boys from Warrandyte’s globe-conquering second LP, Run Home Slow (2019), the artistic vision of Josh and his brother Sam is more defined than ever. The Winding Way is a bigger and more adventurous sounding record than The Teskey Brothers’ first two albums - but while it’s a more studio-oriented release, each track is bursting with life and full of surprises.

Run Home Slow was a colossal success by anyone’s standards, reaching #2 on the ARIA charts, winning 3 ARIA Awards and saw Sam Teskey earn a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album - all watering the grass for sold-out headline tours across the world. The Teskey Brothers performed high-profile sets at Bluesfest, Bonnaroo and Japan’s Fuji Rock, and appeared on US network TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live! More significantly, Run Home Slow fulfilled the promise of their debut record, 2017’s Half Mile Harvest, cementing The Teskey Brothers as a classy modern band with an appetite for classic soul and R&B music.

The Teskey Brothers navigated the Covid shutdown with reasonable aplomb, releasing two live albums, the first of which, 2020’s Live at the Forum, was their first #1 ARIA charting. Both Josh and Sam stretched their legs with a couple of solo records before returning to write and record The Winding Way, a truly remarkable collection honouring Josh and Sam’s roots, while looking to the future.

The Teskey Brothers

The Teskey Brothers
formed around 2008 in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne comprising siblings Sam and Josh Teskey (guitars, vocals), Liam Gough (drums) and Brendon Love (bass). Sam and Josh discovered American soul music of the 1960s via their parents record collection and were encouraged into music at school. The group spent their formative years jamming and playing in pubs and backyard party jams, honing their sound into a refreshing blend of soul and blues.

Their debut album was self-produced at their home studio in Warrandyte and captures the essence and sound of 1960s and 1970s recordings with very much an organic sound base, using analogue recording techniques. The songs are beautifully written and contain warm hooks, resulting in an album that is unique but also strangely familiar.

The lead single “Pain and Misery” was quickly picked up by Community Radio and the video clip has passed more than 45,000 views. “Shiny Moon” showcases a cool slide guitar introduction with a mellow groove, sounding almost JJ Cale or Eric Clapton in style and feel. “Louisa” kicks off with a foot tapping handclap, solo voice and then moves into a groovy drum beat and harmonica solo to kick the groove along.

The album closes with the standout track “Honeymoon” that runs for more than 10 minutes, allowing the full feeling of the instruments to flow through from killer guitars, organ, drums, bass and harmonica, building to a climax, then dropping away to allow the husky and soulful vocals to come back in again. Then half way through the song, the tempo and mood picks up with the Hammond organ taking centre spot as the band jams, and then finishes with a Pink Floyd style finish with the Hammond running on with additional instruments, including horns taking it out through to the end as the sound slowly fades away.

This album contains no booklet.